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Cheryl left The Greatest Dancer viewers super confused on The Greatest Dancer finale when she disappeared in the middle of her performance with Harry and Eleiyah.

The singer and performer joined Harry and Eleiyah for one of their routines for the dance captain rounds – where all of the dance captains performed with their remaining acts.

For the contemporary dance piece, the trio performed to Game Of Survival by Ruelle, pulling influence from mission impossible in the streamlined routine as a countdown ticked behind them.

Cheryl performed with the pair at the beginning of routine (Picture: BBC)

However, after starting her performance with the two, she returned to the podium where they all started, before slipping off the back and disappearing from sight for the rest of the routine.

It took viewers a second of two to clock it, but then weren’t too happy with the singer who only appeared again once the routine was over.

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But the impressive routine still went down a storm in the studio, and Matthew Morrison praised Cheryl, admitting he was surprised at her agility during the performance.

‘Did Cheryl literally hide behind a box for a whole minute of her final act’s performance?,’ one fan wrote online, while another asked the same thing and quizzed that ‘dance captains were supposed to perform with their acts.’

However, in the middle of routine, she slipped behind a box and didn’t come back (Picture: BBC)

The Greatest Dancer’s Official twitter later offered a possible explanation – and suggested that she had been ‘volunteered as tribute’ for the other two.

Tonight’s finale proved to be particularly emotional night for Cheryl, who broke down in tears after Harry and Eleyiah’s final performance to Say Something.

She later admitted the pair had ‘revived her love of dance’ and vowed to get back into the studio.

Despite being favourites to win, Harry and Eleyiah left empty handed (Picture: BBC)

Their efforts unfortunately weren’t enough to bag the win, with Ellie Fergusson becoming the first Greatest Dancer champion.

She was the only dancer in the competition to perform on her own, and was coached by Oti Mabuse.

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She beat Harry and Eleyiah, Jack and Harry and KLA to the top spot.

The Greatest Dancer is available now on BBC iPlayer.

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